UNWANTED NEW HARD DRIVE AND UNWANTED FILE Perflib_Perfdata_7a4.dat

[Guest]

A few days ago I noticed that appeared to have another hard drive labelled F.
It appears that my PC for no logical reason has taken 38MB of my C drive and
partitioned it. For some strange reason Norton waste bin is linked to F
drive.

Out of fear of this action being done by some virus of some kind, I went
into the new F drive and deleted everything I could, however there are still
two files within it that I cannot see.

The next crazy thing that happened around the same time was after a scan
with Norton anti-virus it idetified a file as being a problem however it
could not remove it. I went into the folder myself to remove it manually but
could do nothing at all. The file is named: Perflib_Perfdata_7a4.dat

Can anyone assist me in getting rid of the partition the F drive and the
file Perflib_Perfdata_7a4.dat ? Is this the action of a virus?

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

What did Norton say when you contacted them?

 

[Raymond J. Johnson Jr.]

| A few days ago I noticed that appeared to have another hard drive labelled
F.
| It appears that my PC for no logical reason has taken 38MB of my C drive
and
| partitioned it. For some strange reason Norton waste bin is linked to F
| drive.
|
| Out of fear of this action being done by some virus of some kind, I went
| into the new F drive and deleted everything I could, however there are
still
| two files within it that I cannot see.
|
| The next crazy thing that happened around the same time was after a scan
| with Norton anti-virus it idetified a file as being a problem however it
| could not remove it. I went into the folder myself to remove it manually
but
| could do nothing at all. The file is named: Perflib_Perfdata_7a4.dat
|
| Can anyone assist me in getting rid of the partition the F drive and the
| file Perflib_Perfdata_7a4.dat ? Is this the action of a virus?

Viruses do not partition hard drives. The partition you discovered was most
likely a recovery partition put there by the PC manaufacturer to be used by
a restore disk in restoring your hard drive to as-shipped condition. Why
would you want to delete files if you don't know what they are? Do a Google
search on Perflib_perfdata.